Brooklyn Brewery

Hindy learned to brew beer during a six-year stay in various Middle Eastern nations such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Upon returning to his native Brooklyn in 1984, he and Potter, his neighbors of Park Slope, left their jobs and founded the brewery. The couple hired graphic designer Milton Glaser, best known as the creator of the logo for the I Love New York campaign, to create the company logo and identity. Glaser received in return a share in the company. Originally all their beer was brewed by the contract of Matt Brewing Company, and the couple started their own distribution company and personally transported and marketed their beer to bars and retailers around New York City. In 1996, they received a former matzo factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and turned it into a functional brewery. Although the brewery wanted to expand its brewing capacity in the city, most of the production, including all Brooklyn warehouses and all bottled products, were originally brewed by the contract in the upstate New York City of Utica, due to the limited ability to meet demand Williamsburger Brewery, their lack of a filling line and the cost advantages of contracting. The company later sought to expand its facilities in Brooklyn, but had difficulty finding suitable space within the district. However, an economic recession allowed them to stay in Williamsburg and spend 2009 an extension of the brewery by 6.5 million dollars. Since 1994, Garrett Oliver is the Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster. He was first named a Brewmaster at the Manhattan Brewing Company of New York, where he began his apprenticeship in 1989 as an apprentice. In 2003 he published the book "The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food". Garrett was also a judge at the Great American Beer Festival for eleven years. In 2016, they announced that they wanted to relocate their specialty brewery in Williamsburg to their landlord, Yoel Goldman, put up for sale because they would not be able to extend their lease at a reasonable price since escalating property prices. They also plan to relocate their main brewery in Utica, New York to a $ 70 million, 200,000 square foot facility on Staten Island.